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Infrastructure developer GVK group on Friday said it had acquired a strategic part of a large coal resource and infrastructure development project from Hancock Prospecting in Queensland, Australia,

Australia's second-largest city Melbourne has been rated the world's best city to live in, and Mumbai one of the worst, according to a new survey.

More than a dozen regional governments in Japan will conduct tests to determine whether locally grown rice contains too much radioactive cesium, farm ministry officials said on Monday, as food safe

One step is the installation of retro-reflective display boards giving names of roads and directions to landmarks

The World Health Organisation (WHO) launched an updated edition of drinking water guidelines on July 4 to push water suppliers to systematically manage the potential risk of contaminants entering water, from the catchment to the consumer.

JAIPUR: Continuous depletion of ground water in the state has become a cause for concern and people's help is needed to conserve water. This was the crux of the discussion organised by the ground water department on Wednesday. Strategies to meet the water crisis were also discussed at the workshop.

"The government alone can't solve problem.

CHENNAI: The role that youth have to play in climate change was the cynosure of a conference held in the city on Friday.

In this paper, we address the issues of shortage and maldistribution of health personnel in southeast Asia in the context of the international trade in health services. Although there is no shortage of health workers in the region overall, when analysed separately, five low-income countries have some deficit.

As Many as 27,000 people live per square km in Mumbai, making the metro one of the densest cities in Asia, as per the Asian Green City Index. The Asian Green City Index, commissioned by German firm Siemens, analysed the environmental sustainability of 22 major cities in Asia with respect to environmental and climate protection.

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